Wherefor: *** SECURITY information for tomh ***?

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/11/14 19:21, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Who the heck is generating these messages, and what is the point
> of them exactly? I know user nvtest isn't in sudoers, I was the
> one who didn't put it there. What keeps telling me this?
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 06:36:43 -0400
> From: "nvtest at tomh.localdomain" <nvtest at tomh.localdomain>
> To: "root at tomh.localdomain" <root at tomh.localdomain>
> Subject: *** SECURITY information for tomh ***
>
>
> tomh : Mar 11 06:36:42 : nvtest : user NOT in sudoers ; TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/raptor/claw/nstar/nview/nview-fs/SRC ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/bash -c -l
>

This message means that user "nvtest" used the "sudo" command and is not authorized to do so.  The command they tried to execute was /bin/bash -c -l

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